Maria Edgeworth: Judge

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“Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.”

Maria Edgeworth book The Absentee

Source: The Absentee

“My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.”

Maria Edgeworth

Vivian (1812), ch. 1; Tales and Novels, vol. 8, p. 8.

“We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.”

Maria Edgeworth book Castle Rackrent

Castle Rackrent (1800), Preface; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 9.